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4 days ago · Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a bacterial illness caused by a bite from an infected tick. Symptoms include high fever and widespread rash. In the United States, there are 4,000–6,000 reports of tick-borne spotted fevers, including RMSF, each year. It's the deadliest tick-borne illness in the world.
2 days ago · Yellow fever. Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. [3] In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains—particularly in the back—and headaches. [3] Symptoms typically improve within five days. [3] In about 15% of people, within a day of improving the fever comes back, abdominal ...
- ~78,000 in Africa alone (2013)
- Supportive care
- Yellow fever virus spread by mosquitoes
2 days ago · Cheyenne died on Friday 13 April 2018, just days shy of her 27th birthday. The incidence of Valley Fever – known scientifically as Coccidioidomycosis, and colloquially as “Cocci” – has increased substantially over the past 20 years on the US west coast, with the most epidemic regions found in Arizona and Southern California.
5 days ago · According to the WHO, common symptoms of yellow fever include fever, headaches, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. It can affect the liver and kidneys in severe cases and cause jaundice, the yellowing of skin, from which the virus gets its name.
4 days ago · Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, bilharzia, and Katayama fever, [1] [2] [9] is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes. [5] . The urinary tract or the intestines may be infected. [5] . Symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody stool, or blood in the urine. [5] .
- 4,400–200,000
- Praziquantel
- Schistosomes from freshwater snails
4 days ago · Fever in the elderly should be regarded with concern. Its presence usually presages serious disease. Most fevers in the aged are caused by infections, and even in chronic fevers (fevers of unknown origin), more than one-third are due to microbes.
4 days ago · Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease caused by measles virus. [3] [5] [11] [12] Symptoms usually develop 10–12 days after exposure to an infected person and last 7–10 days. [7] [8] Initial symptoms typically include fever, often greater than 40 °C (104 °F), cough, runny nose, and inflamed eyes.